merc0447:
I wouldn’t move 2hrs into a rest period. [zb] that. I’d know 100% they couldn’t discipline you for it either.
Suppose there are two types of drivers ones like above who’d get out of bed eject the card. Generally you could shove a broom up their arse and tell them to sweep the yard and they’d do that aswell while they waited for the other driver to unhook.
And then the second type of drivers who have a bit of self respect and don’t like getting the pish took out them and tell them to [zb] off. He’s also the same driver that would refuse to go and it interrupt a driver on daily rest with his curtains closed.
It’s not about being awkward or being militant it’s about right and wrong. And what happened to the op is wrong.
But “it’s ok by the FTA” is a new one on me. Need to remember that, the FTA isn’t a government body, they are a trade association. They are a bunch of useless knobends that only have compaines best interest at heart and don’t give a hee haw about drivers.
I do agree with all of that mate, well said.
Generally speaking in the context of the argument, the powers that set these rules do not state any leeway.
Basically as we all know we are now timed to the last possible minute, with ridiculous fines, ott penalties and all the rest of this pedantic b.s.
Nowhere does it say (broadly speaking) after any rule…‘‘except if’’
So that suggests on the face of it they want things done zero tolerance…their way or the highway etc etc.
(Ok, on the other hand in many cases, it is down to discretion so not all bad, just mostly.)
Bearing this in mind the o/p is 100% in the right and nobody can knock him for carrying out the rules stringently in the spirit in which they were made, and certainly I won’t,…that is what ‘‘they’’ want so that is what ‘‘they’’ got. 
On the other hand ■■■■ happens in transport so sometimes common sense has to kick in.
It may have been a perishable load, a contract dependant load, or an important load that a factory was waiting for and costing them millions in lost production.(chances are it was bog rolls but bear with me 
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So the onus lies with the company and the planner (the driver has done his bit, completed his part legally and come to a stop)
So…Question is, have they planned things to the last second to get the last drop of blood out of the driver, and it has gone ■■■■ up, so the routine ■■■■ poor planning has backfired on the useless ■■■■ s.
Or is it just down to traffic and unseens not predictable…rta.s snow etc., and forgetting to tell him to drop and park into the bargain.
So this is what I would do in same circumstances different scenarios.
If this sort of ■■■■ poor planning is a regular occurrence and if the firm are a bunch of arse wipes who treat their drivers like crap, and speak to them like schoolboys I would have done the same as o/p went back to bed, re.set my rest and said ■■■■ em see you tomorrow, (and next tuesday )
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If however they were a co. who treated me like a pro driver and grown up, who had made a accidental ■■■■ up, I would have played ball, prevailed with common sense, and helped them out …as I have done many times in the past.
(as well as also being an arse with ■■■■ firms)
I would also have explained to the firm what I was doing, get re.assurance they would back me up in any way to minimise MY arse being brutalised …and everybody’s happy.
Give and take when appropriate, and react to whatever treatment you get in different ways.
It has always worked for me from day1.
